The English Romantic poets sought truth beyond the empirical and scientistic limits to which it had been confined by eighteenth-century rationalism. Insisting that truth could be found in transcendence, and especially in the transfiguring kiss of Beauty, these poets waxed lyrical in their praise of Creation, seeing it as a hymn of praise to the Creator Himself.
One of the best things produced by the so-called “Enlightenment” and the superciliously self-named “Age of Reason” was the…